Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

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Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Sanyo Telecommunications Co., Ltd.

Sanyo Electric Col, Ltd.

Yukio Mori

Haruhiko Murata

Seiji Okada

Akihiro Maenaka

Susumu Tanase

Toshiya Iinuma

Atsuhiro Yamashita

Masutaka Inoue

Shigeo Kinoshita

Toshiyuki Okino

Masao Takuma

Kiyotada Kawakami

Tetsuo Mise

Yasuhachi Hamamoto

Toru Asaeda

Masahiro Yokohata

Shugo Yamashita

Takashi Yabukawa

Hiroyuki Goya

Takashi Ikeda

Akio Kobayashi

Hiroaki Yoshida

Toshinobu Haruki

Hidefumi Okada

Yuichi Taneya

Syugo Yamashita

Satoru Takeuchi

Kenji Oyamada

Tooru Asaeda

Hirokazu Ide

Tooru Yamamoto

Hidekazu Uchida

Kazuo Nakamoto

Masae Ichino

Shoichi Hasegawa

Yuji Yamamoto

Shigeyuki Okada

Takashi Miwa

Haruo Hatanaka

Shinichi Murakami

Atsushi Kinoshita

Shimpei Fukumoto

Minoru Takahashi

Shigekazu Minechika

Hideto Fujita

Takahisa Ando

Kazunobu Mameno

Jun-ichiro Arai

Daisuke Takemori

Norikazu Tsunekawa

Makoto Yamanaka

Mineki Taoka

Koji Marumo

Masahiko Yoshiyama

Masahiro Seto

Kanichi Koyama

Atsufumi Kinoshita

Satoru Sato

Takayuki Ishiwata

Yoshitaka Anada

Toru Yamamoto

Kanzi Ihara

Satoshi Iue

Wataru Takayanagi

Ryuichiro Tominaga

Syuugo Yamashita

Yuki Asukabe

Shuugo Yamashita

Kanji Ihara

A dimming control device configured to receive dimming input level data updated at intervals, and to control a dimming level of a light source based on the dimming input level data, includes: a memory that stores the dimming input level data received prior to the newest dimming input level data; and a generator that generates dimming output level data as data having higher resolution than the dimming input level data, the dimming output level data being generated as a function of the dimming input level data received and stored in the memory.

Dimming control device, lighting apparatus, lighting system, and dimming control method

An imaging device () includes: an imaging element () which outputs a signal expressing an optical image of an imaging object upon an imaging process; a particular object detection unit () which successively acquires a frame image based on an output signal of the imaging element and detects the position of the particular object contained in the imaging object on the frame image according to the image signal of the frame image; a cut-out unit () which sets in the frame image, a cut-out region smaller than the entire region of the frame image according to the detected position and extracts the image in the cut-out region as a cut-out image; and an image quality compensation unit () which improves the resolution of the cut-out image.

Imaging device and image reproduction device for correcting images

A biological rhythm is adjusted based on a time difference as well while individually dealing with moving subjects that move in accordance with moving schedules. In step S, information including the moving schedule and biological information on the moving subject is input. In step S, a sleeping schedule is set based on the information obtained in step S. Step Sis roughly divided into two steps. In the first step, parameters for setting the sleeping schedule are set based on the moving schedule and the biological information. In the next step, the sleeping schedule is set with the parameters obtained in the first step.

Biological rhythm adjustment method, biological rhythm adjustment device, biological rhythm adjustment system

An image processing apparatus includes a recorder. A recorder records repeatedly-fetched object scene images as a moving image. An extractor extracts one portion of the object scene images recorded by the recorder, in parallel with the recording process of the recorder. An evacuator alternatively evacuates a predetermined number, which is an upper limit, of the object scene images extracted by the extractor. An allocator allocates the object scene images evacuated by the evacuator at a time point at which the recording process of the recorder is ended, to the moving image recorded by the recorder. A controller starts up the evacuator at a frequency that is decreased according to an increase in an amount of moving images recorded by the recorder.

Image processing apparatus

An image-taking apparatus generates an output image from a photographed image obtained by photographing and displays this output image on a display screen of a display section. The image-taking apparatus includes a recognition processing section for recognizing a specific subject (facial region of a person, or a facial component such as eyes) included in the photographed image. Referring to results of this recognition, the image-taking apparatus evaluates the dimension of the specific subject in each photographed image. If the dimension evaluated is relatively large, a relatively small magnification ratio to be employed upon the generation of the output image from the photographed image is provided. If the dimension evaluated is relatively small, a relatively large magnification ratio to be employed upon the generation of the output image from the photographed image is provided. As a result, the dimension of the specific subject in the output image is kept substantially constant.

Image-taking apparatus and output image generation method

An image processing apparatus includes an image processing circuit. The image processing circuit is configured by an image processing portion for performing an image process on a first image so as to generate a third image, an image composing portion for composing the first image and the third image, and an addition-ratio calculating portion for calculating a degree of composition of a composing process between the first image and the third image by the image composing portion based on a difference signal from a difference calculating portion.

Image processing apparatus and photographing apparatus

A technology for reducing the so-called 'phosphor burn-in' phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.

Organic electro luminescense display apparatus and application thereof

A merged image is generated by merging together a first image obtained by shooting with a reduced exposure time, a second image obtained by shooting with an increased exposure time, and a third image obtained by filtering out a high-frequency component from the first image. Here, a merging ratio at which the second and third images are merged together is determined by use of differential values obtained from the second and third images. Also, a merging ratio at which the first image and the second and third images (a fourth image) are merged together is determined by use of edge intensity values obtained from an image based on the first image.

Image processing device that merges a plurality of images together, image shooting device provided therewith, and image processing method in which a plurality of images are merged together

An easy-to-carry image pickup device is provided to obtain images with multiple view angles in which a target subject is positioned in an appropriate size. When capturing an image of a person as a target subject, the size and position of the person's face in the image are detected as a specified part, and a zoom magnification ratio for a lens unit and a shift amount of the incident light position for a light-axis shifting unit are automatically controlled based on the detected size and position of the person's face, so that the person's face has a predetermined size and is positioned in a predetermined position in the image.

Image pickup device and image pickup method

An image-sensing apparatus has: an optical zoom control portion varying the size of the subject image on the source images by optical zooming; a particular subject detection portion detecting the position and size of a particular subject on the source images based on the image data of the source images; a narrow-angle image extraction portion setting a narrow-angle image including the particular subject to set the position and size of the narrow-angle image on image; a wide-angle image extraction portion extracting a wide-angle image that includes the narrow-angle image; a resolution enhancement processing portion cutting out a plurality of narrow-angle images according to a setting in the narrow-angle image extraction portion, to generate a narrow-angle high-resolution image having a number of pixels greater than the number of pixels of the narrow-angle image. The optical zoom control portion controls the factor of the optical zooming such that the ratio of the reference number of pixels to the number of pixels of the narrow-angle image approaches the factor of enlargement by the resolution enhancement processing portion.

Image-sensing apparatus

The imaging apparatus includes an image sensor for obtaining a picture image from an optical image that is projected to the image sensor through an optical system, an image moving portion for moving the optical image on the image sensor, a motion detecting portion for detecting a movement on the picture image of a moving subject that appears in the optical image, and a control portion for controlling, during an exposure period after a predetermined operation, the image moving portion in the direction of canceling the movement of the moving subject on the image sensor due to a movement of the moving subject in the real space, based on a movement of the moving subject detected in advance. The control portion sets length of the exposure period based on the movement of the moving subject detected in advance.

Imaging apparatus and imaging control method

Based on, for example, the image at the start of a movie, a thumbnail image is tentatively generated and is stored in a header file. If a predetermined triggering condition is fulfilled during movie shooting, a thumbnail image is generated from the frame image at the timing that the triggering condition is fulfilled, and the thumbnail image existing in the header file is replaced with the newly generated thumbnail image. The triggering condition is fulfilled, for example, if, after zooming-in, the angle of view has been kept fixed for a predetermined period or longer, or if the focus has been kept locked for a predetermined period.

Thumbnail generating apparatus and image shooting apparatus

A frame rate converting apparatus includes a pan/tilt determining unit which determines whether an image is in a pan/tilt state on the basis of information related to motion of the image detected by a motion detecting unit for each frame of a moving image, a moving distance setting unit which sets 0 as a moving distance of an image with respect to a frame the image of which is not determined as an image in a pan/tilt state by the pan/tilt determining unit, which calculates a moving distance of an image from the information related to the motion of the image detected by the motion detecting unit with respect to a frame the image of which is determined as an image in a pan/tilt state, and which sets the obtained moving distance as a moving distance of the image, and a prediction image generating unit which generates a prediction image necessary for frame rate conversion on the basis of the moving distance of the image set for each frame by the moving distance setting unit.

Frame rate converting apparatus, pan/tilt determining apparatus, and video apparatus

A display apparatus includes an RGB-RGBX signal converter having a variable RGB-RGBX conversion ratio and configured to convert an RGB signal into an RGBX signal. An RGBX type self light-emitting display is configured to display video, based on the RGBX signal obtained by the RGB-RGBX signal converter. A controller is configured to control the RGB-RGBX conversion ratio utilized for converting the RGB signal into the RGBX signal, in accordance with a display position of the RGB signal.

Display apparatus

Distortion data discretely stored in a distortion data memoryare read out by a selectorand fed to a signal processor. For each coordinate position, the signal processorcalculates an approximation formula representing an image height-distortion curve based on the distortion data fed thereto, and performs distortion correction based on the approximation formula.

Distortion correction device and image sensing device provided therewith

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